Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!Al Capone's holiday mansion on an island off Florida looks set for demolition.After buying the pad for $40,000 (£29,000) in 1928, the crime boss used it for a winter escape while Chicago froze over.It was at the pearl white-walled house in Florida that a 29-year-old Al Capone threw pool parties in the comfort of round-the-clock security who stayed in the guest house.Just three years later, the gangster was jailed for tax evasion, serving six and a half years in federal prison.On release from Alcatraz, he spent his final years at the mansion suffering from paresis, a partial paralysis resulting from syphilis until he died of cardiac arrest in a guest room in 1947.
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